Wing-nut.



No. 812,294. PATENTED PEB. l3, 1906.,

' l A. S. REED.

WING` NUT.

APPLICATION FILED 11m29.190s.

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"U TED sTATEs 'PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT S. REED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ELIJ AH T.` HARRIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WING-NUT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application iled May 29, 1905. Serial No. 262,806.

To all, whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT S. REED, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Wing-Nuts, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, concise, and eXact description.

My invention relates to a wing-nut, and has forits object to provide an improved constructionwhereby wing nuts having great strength and rigidity may be made very cheaply and whereby ordinary nuts may be quickly and easily converted into wing-nuts.

I will describe my invention particularly by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which a Figure 1 shows a blank of sheet metal adapted to form the shell of thewing-nut in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the folded shell. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the shell, to ether with the nut in position to be inserted t erein'; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the assembled device.

The same letters of reference designate the same parts wherever they appear.4

The Wing-nut of my invention consists, briefly, in a shell of sheet metal stamped by means of a die in such a manner 'as to form a central socket adapted to receive an ordinary nut, the ends of the blank being folded in such a way as to form the win s. As shown .in Fig. 1, the blank for the she l consists of a piece of sheet metal of enerally oblong shape havin its ends rounded, as shown, so thatwhen t e lobes a a and b b are folded together along the dotted lines, as shown,

- said lobes will form the wings of the shell, as

together forming the win s a b, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, while .t e central portion forms a socket c, conforming to the shape of a nut d, which may be inserted therein. Fi 3 shows the nut in position to be inserte After the nut is placed in the socket the upper walls of the socketl may be sli htly squeezed together at the corners to hol the I nut against withdrawal.

It will be seen that in accordance with my invention wing nuts can be made very cheaply by stamping out the shells andI inserting ordinary nuts in the sockets .of said shells. Wing-nuts thus formed will have great strength and rigidity.

^ If desired, the shells may be sold separately, so that the user may apply them to ordinary nuts for various purposes.

I claim- 1. A wing-nut comprisin a shell consisting of a stamped and fol ed sheet-metal blank, the folded end pkortions of the blank l forming the Wings andthe central portion of the blank forming the socket, and a nut conforming to the shape of said socket insertedA therein.

2. ,A Wing-nut comprising a sheet-metal shell formed with a central socket portion shaped to receive a nut and having its Walls extended and folded to form wings, and a 

